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Found a new map, to me! Houston, Texas, Town plan with superimposed information 1937 https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/images/dz010q59h?locale=en#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=3838%2C8282%2C2384%2C1143 (Link above for the full-size map) While zooming in on the map I noticed a new clue! Greenwood's Sanitarium is located near Torch Hill. Also near Forest Glen, Sleepy Creek, and GR Ridge. Notice the subdivision to the right that have streets named after numbers. This does not exist today. Now, in 2023, the streets are named after people. Kind of cool! There was also a proposed Veterans Hospital across from the US Naval Hospital. This never happened, and now the UT System owns the land. That location should have been an airport a few years prior? Or maybe after.

Would just love to see a photograph of this home! Or in fact, even anywhere near here. I wonder who this family is? Maybe their family will see this and chime in with family history? The family was in the newspaper, so they must have been important to the surrounding community? I can try and find it on Google Earth, but it doesn't always work out, or the image is too blurry. From the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice dated September 27, 1962. Mrs. Jack M. Stein and Milton 7333 Old Main Road Wish all their relatives and friends a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Cool old restaurant advertisement I found this week. In the newspaper Southwestern Times dated March 29, 1951. Has anyone ever been here or know about the place? Quick fact: The same intersection once housed an airport. Almeda Road at Old Spanish Trail is a famous, historic, intersection! Have you tried . . . Our Pan Fried Chicken? Hickory-Broiled Steaks of Prime Western Beef Delicious Seafoods Barbecued Beef Barbecued Ham ½ Chicken Shoestring Potatoes Cream Gravy Hot Biscuits Honey All You Can Eat $1.25 Delicious Complete Lunch 75¢ Hammon Organ Music Nightly Serving from 11 A.M. To 12 P.M. Bring Her to The Terrace at The Crossroads – Almeda & O.S.T.

They really did it! I'm so glad to see this section of Buffalo Speedway getting some high-priced construction. This is across the street from UT's 307-acres. $17 million permit for Alcon Laboratories Manufacture remodel, switch gear addition and site work.

This week I noticed a new Houston airport that I have never seen before. I searched around HAIF and couldn't find a mention of it. Thought I would contribute and add information about a cool, old airport. From the Sanborn map, volume 12, 1946: Located off State Highway 35 / Telephone Road; bounded between Mahan St. and Major Ave. and next to Municipal Airport.

Not to disappoint regarding an actual update, and not to mix history and current projects together, but I believe the home in the old photograph is still standing and will be demolished to build the skyscraper. This is the company's headquarters, still today, at 1661 Tanglewood Road. William Farrington standing outside of the Tanglewood Corporation building.

Very cool! I have never even heard of this business. Love finding cool, old, businesses in Houston. I found this in Rice University's yearbook called The Campanile dated 1966. Does anyone remember this place? Photographic Systems and Materials for Science and Research, Architecture, Fine Arts. George Lange & Co. Cameras 6630 South Main St. - Houston, Texas 77025 - JA 6-4311

This advertisement specifies the restaurants and clubs that were inside of the hotel. Thought I would add more knowledge to this thread! From Rice University's The Campanile yearbook dated 1966. The Towers Motor Hotel The Friendliest in Houston All The Comforts of a hotel and the Convenience of a Motel Acres of Free Parking 3 Minutes to Domed Stadium Special Rates by the Week or Month Sir Roberts Club – Nightly Entertainment 3 Famous Places To Eat: Pancake Cottage - Bayou Steakery - Hofbrau. Excellent Food at Moderate Prices 2130 West Holcombe Blvd Houston 25, Texas / MO 6-1461

wow!! A Jos. F. Meyer location in Third Ward on Calhoun Road? Never seen that before! I wonder if this was the last location before the (enterprise) shut down? This advertisement and location is incredibly rare. Cool find! Found this in the Rice University yearbook The Campanile dated 1966. Jos. F. Meyer Co. Wholesale Distributors Automotive Parts and Equipment Tools, Hardware and Industrial Supplies 4701 Calhoun / Houston, Texas "Serving Transportation Since 1876"

Can you spot the home? Brays Bayou Flooding October 1949.

Can you spot the home? Brays Bayou Flooding October 1949. The opposite view:

Found the two mansions! I had help from the Houston Gargoyle Magazine map dated May 1, 1932, with the map called Houston's Cradle of Culture & Environs. Marlborough (or Holcombe) Drive Rolling Lawns, Rolling Lawns Citadels of Capitalism (with scenic grandeur, with sunken gardens, and maybe an iron deer or two.) Google Earth aerial photographs from 1953. I mapped with the address of 1400 Holcombe Drive, which placed me in the middle of the mansions. It looks like the mansion on the right was demolished first, to make way for MD Anderson's Mayfair Apartments. The remaining mansion stood standing for a few more decades.

The MD Anderson South Campus vivarium got larger! I thought the vivarium was a small, inexpensive, modular building? The project was renamed to Biosciences Research Facility with a budget limit of $441,000,000. The building is only 3 floors above ground, yet costs nearly $500 million. wow!! Paco Jones broke the news about the future BRF in the thread MD Anderson TMC Master Facilities Framework 2030. Thought I would borrow his images and transcribe the text so the text is indexable on HAIF. It looks like the UT Research Park will have on-going, continuous construction for the next 5 to 6 years! August 2023 - UTHealth School of Public Health October 2023 - MD Anderson SCRB5 2024 - UTHealth Digital Innovation Tower 2025 - MD Anderson BRF Project Introduction: The MD Anderson South Campus Biosciences Research Facility (BRF) will be a one-of-a-kind vivarium facility that drives innovation in research, supports animal welfare, enables consistency high efficacy of research, and promotes a work environment that helps attract and retain top talent for MD Anderson. As part of MD Anderson's Master Plan, the institution is consolidating its research footprint to the South Campus – creating the Texas Medical Center Research Hub. In support of this, MD Anderson requires a state-of-the-art vivarium designed to accommodate the future needs of the research community. The current animal care and use program is challenged by the north/south campus separation that requires balancing access to animals based on researchers and lab locations. It is imperative that the physical location of the building be central to the majority of research buildings to minim street on animals and humans and to including confounding factors on data. To facilitate these goals, a phased approach to the project has been determined to best meet the Institution's planning and research goals while aligning with the current budget. Due to the complexity of the vivarium's program and ensuring that future phases will integrate seamlessly to become a single multi-phased complex, specific operation and design drivers have identified to provide a framework for the Phase 1 program. The primary goal being to provide the best value for day one operational functionary with the ability to expand in future phases to create one, single cohesive facility. Phase 1 is comprised of two occupied floors with approximately 211,728 gross square feet and an upper third shelled floor of approximately 78,0000 gross square feet. The ground floor is comprised of an automated central cage wash facility, cage wash support spaces, complete loading dock for all phases, and building systems support spaces. The second floor will enable a minimum of 30,000 rodent cages to be housed on one level, while the third floor will be shelled for future expansion (Phase 1.5) Phase 1.5 Interior fit out will be built to suit and can enable the facility to either accommodate an additional 30,000 rodent cages and associated support spaces or provide specialty barrier housing for 13,300 rodent cages along with priority core research services as determined at that time. Future Phase 2 will be a separate but connected building structure with the long term plan to expand directly south and horizontally from the Phase 1 building with full connectivity between phases. This future phase will include the remainder of the original BRF program of core research services including Aquatics, Small Animal Imaging Facility, Pathology, Behavioral, GEMF, specialty housing, and eventually accommodating the full 90,000-cage capacity – delivering a single, complete vivarium complex. The project site is located on the corner of East Road and Bertner Avenue. Preparation of the site will include removing the existing MD Anderson Operations & Maintenance Storage Facility, the Hazardous Waste Storage Facility, and the existing surface lot parking. Once the site is cleared of existing structures, a new underground utility runs will connect electric services, water, sanitary and storm to the existing mains located adjacent to East Road and Bertner. Due to the thermal load requirements needed for this large-scale vivarium, it was determined that the existing South Campus CUP would not be able to support this facility. In lieu of service from the existing CUP, Phase 1 will include a stand-alone thermal plant to provide the required chilled water for Phase 1 operations. The stand-alone plant will designed so that it can moderately expand into future phases. In addition, Phase 1 will include a tie-in connect to the existing ground thermal line at the west side of the site. The project team is currently analyzing integration of the new chiller plant into the mater distributed loop and optimization controls to determine cost feasibility. A few years ago a MD Anderson engineer showed me where the future vivarium will be located. He was right! East Road and Bertner Avenue, by SCRB #3. This development has been in the works for at least 3 years. Glad to see it coming a long!

I've always wondered about the metal plates at the end of the Brays Bayou bridge on Holcombe Blvd. Was there a whole different bridge at one point? The metal plating looks relatively new. I also found a detail on a 1930s map. I wonder if the same bridge has been in operation for 90 years? Houston Gargoyle Magazine dated May 1, 1932.

I believe the CenterPoint TMC substation was commonly referred to as the Grant Substation. Named after John Grant and his daughter Carolyn Grant-Fay. The substation, or plant, is located across the street from the 22 acres (55 acres?) that once belonged to the Grant family. I thought MD Anderson/TMC took control of the Grant-Fay land, but maybe CenterPoint Energy also got some land in the land transaction?

I discovered a very unique multifamily complex! Hidden a long side a tall hospital/apartment tower that took all the fame- The tower next to the small, garden-style complex was called The Park Towers Apartments/The Center Pavilion Hospital at 1700 Holcombe Blvd. I found the apartment complex on a Google Earth capture dated 1989. Looks like they were built between 1957 and 1962. Appears to have been demolished sometime around 2002 and replaced with a surface parking lot for MD Anderson's Radiology Outpatient Center located at 1700 Holcombe Blvd. Does anyone recall these small apartments? I'm interested in the name of the apartments.

I was browsing the newspaper The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan dated September 24, 1969 and came across a business advertisement for Mr. Steak located at the corner of South Braeswood & Holcombe Blvd. To get the actual address, I had to search more and came up with an MD Anderson 2012 report that had the address contained. Does anyone remember this? Relatively speaking, 1969 wasn't that long ago. Maybe someone on HAIF remembers this place? Family dining . . . of popular prices! “Try a little tenderness” Treat The Family To A Mr. Steak Try our Tender and Juice Mr. Steak Sirloin $3.20 Two Convenient Locations to serve you: 3640 Hillcroft – Just North of Southwest Frwy. Corner Braeswood & Holcombe Blvd. Mr. Steak, America's favorite family restaurants. For New Restaurant Need Cooks – Bus Boys – Dishwashers See Mr. Webb – 1:00 to 5:0 P.M. Mr. Steak Restaurant Corner Braeswood & Holcombe Blvd.

Does HCA own the land while The Woman's Hospital of Texas operates? A little confused on the situation with this development.

The iconic intersection of Westheimer & Post Oak. I would only assume that is the Post Oak School / Grady School. Awesome photo!! Edit: At this time period this could have been remodeled to the Houston First Savings building? It doesn't look like the above Post Oak School building with the unique topping?

I'm late to the party, but I just discovered the cartoon-but-accurate map that the publication called Houston Gargoyle Magazine put out in May 1, 1932. Within the map, it contains the race track on Old Main Street Road, written as Old Main Road. The map is actually just amazing! It's of the whole "south main corridor" as you might say. Very cool!! If you would like to zoom in, you can go to the original rice link: https://ricehistorycorner.com/2016/11/29/houstons-cradle-of-culture-1932/

Found it! The aerial photograph were taken in 1963 and shows multiple baseball fields a long Westheimer Road. So cool!!

More information: From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated June 11, 1918: Lost and Found. Lost- $20 reward, black mare, about 8 years old. 2 white feet, good condition. Branded J (reserved) on right hip; also red mule colt. 2 years old, branded MO (with inverted V over) on the right hip; last seen at Post Oak School, Westheimer road. Notify Ciro Martino, Box 52, Route 4. San Felipe road. Houston, Texas. The Houston Post. dated January 6, 1924: Upper left- Picnic grounds on Westheimer road, with Superior model Chevrolet in foreground. Lower left- an automobile buried hub deep on Westheimer street in city limits, with a Superior model Chevrolet in the foreground. Upper right- Showing the Superior touring with the country hothouse of Kerr Floral Company in the background. Center right- Post Oak School building on Westheimer road and a three-quarter front view of Superior model Chevrolet. Lower right- Mose covered trees near picnic ground on Westheimer road and the Superior Chevrolet touring in the foreground. Post Oak School Building:

Thanks to Ross for finding the exact location last year. The gun club is located where the present day Highland Village Shopping Center is, located a long Westheimer Road. I mapped the HV Apple Store with an address of 4012 Westheimer Road.

I've noticed gun clubs have a cool formation in aerial photography. Found a historic Uptown gun club so I thought I would share my findings. From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated June 15, 1924: Views Snapped On Post Party Jaunt Along The Westheimer and Bellaire Roads. Upper Left: The gun club out on the Westheimer Road with a front view of the Jordan Blue Boy in the foreground. The Houston Post. dated June 8, 1924: An Airplane View of Houston Gun Club John Winters and Ed Bond recently took the accompanying picture of the Houston Gun Club's up-to-date house and trap field.

Does anyone know about this? I believe I found a small church on the corner of Post Oak at Westheimer! I went onto their website and their "about us" page mentions: Founded in 1939, The Church of St. John the Divine is a vibrant congregation dedicated to Changing Lives for God in Christ. Was this the original location before they moved to 2450 River Oaks Blvd? Cool find!! From the newspaper Southwestern Times dated July 5, 1951 : Wright Graduates from Baylor Med With High Honors Graduating from Baylor Medical College with high honors, Bob Wright of 4321 Cynthia will intern at the Jeff Davis Hospital, after which he plans to go to Japan as a medical missionary. Dr. Wright, who has lived in Bellaire for the past three years, has a wife and two children. He was lay pastor at the Baptist mission on Westheimer and Post Oak Road until his studies and hospital duty during his senior year forced him to resign. The Alvin Sun dated April 29, 1954: Grace Church to Attend Presentation On Sunday afternoon (May 2) members of Grace Episcopal Church School will attend the Annual Mite-box Presentation Service which this year will be held in Saint John the Divine Episcopal Church, Westheimer and Post Oak Road, Houston. The service will begin at 4:00 p.m. Members of Grace School are asked to be at the Parish House, ready to leave at 2:45 p.m. Parents of the children will provide transportation. Aerial photograph of the building located at Post Oak and Westheimer in 1957: